We’ve seen some great Lego Mindstorms creations over the past year or so, with highlights including the Sudoku solver and the felt tip printer. But this latest creation takes the top spot if for nothing else, the sheer size of it.

It’s called Monster Chess, and consists of a chessboard the size of a large room populated with Lego chess robots. Control of those robots is handled wirelessly from a tablet PC. The user selects which chess piece to move on the screen and after a short delay the action is carried out on the board.

Here’s a quick facts rundown about what it took to make this game of chess possible:

Over 100,000 Lego pieces

37,612 in the chess board

17,748 in the robot bases

17,114 in the bodies

22,688 in the mosaics

The size of the board is 14.5 square meters, and the total cost of building everything came to $30,000. This was no small project with four people spending a year creating it using the C# programming language and LabVIEW for the robots. There was of course a lot of Lego pieces to be put together too.

Due to the control being via a tablet PC it opens up the options as to what the board can be used for. Here’s the modes it currently supports:

Human vs Human

Human vs Computer

Computer vs Computer

Normal chess game

Chess puzzle

Replay historical match

Monster Chess is the creation of Team Hassenplug who have finished their game in time for Brickworld 2010. It is held between June 17-20 and allows Lego lovers to come together and share their creations.